The Age of Immunology: Conceiving a Future in an Alienating World PDF
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The Age of Immunology The Age of Immunology CONCEIVING A FUTURE IN AN ALIENATING WORLD A. David Napier THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS / CHICAGO AND LONDON A. David Napier is professor of anthropology and Dana Faculty Fellow at Middlebury College and director of Students of Human Ecology, a nonprofit organization that combines academic mentoring and community service. He is the author of Foreign Bodies: Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology,and Masks, Transformation, and Paradox. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2003by A. David Napier All rights reserved. Published 2003 Printed in the United States of America 12111009080706050403 12345 ISBN: 0-226-56812-1(cloth) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Napier, A. David. The age of immunology : conceiving a future in an alienating world / A. David Napier. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn0-226-56812-1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Ethnology—Philosophy. 2. Intercultural communication. 3. Self. 4. Change. 5. Immunology. I. Title. gn345.n36 2003 305.8(cid:2)001—dc21 2002012926 (cid:2)(cid:2)The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1992. For Andrew, Harriet, and the future M.D. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear Contents Acknowledgments.xi Preface Nailed to the Crossroads.xv 1 Introduction. Part I Anthropology 19 1 Anthropological Inoculations. 40 2 Thinking Immunologically. 74 3 Immunology and Illness Experience. Part II Epistemology 109 4 Foreign AIDS: Cultural Relations as an Immunological Form. 142 5 Unnatural Selection: Social Symbols of the Microbial World. 181 6 Reciprocity: Solution and Dissolution in Immunology. 202 7 Undiscovered Selves. Part III Autogeny 237 Epilogue Nonself Help. 289 Notes. 299 References. 315 Index.
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